Today's Sports

North Oldham proved to be a little too much for the Rockets, as the visiting Mustangs swept Shelby County 3-0 Thursday.

“One big thing we take away from a match like this is the level of competition needed to go beyond district and region,” Shelby County coach Kristen Kapp said. “My girls need to realize that no matter the level of competition, they need to play their hardest on each point.”

The first set was a rocky one for the Rockets, who started out of the gate slowly and only mustered seven points.

The Collins volleyball team’s seven-match win streak finally came to an end Wednesday against visiting Oldham County.

“The speed of tonight’s match gave us struggles in several areas,” Collins coach Cary Clark said. “Our serving was below our season average at eighty-five percent, and our serve-receive got roughed up with nine errors combined.”

Blair Nethery and Julia Belcher led the team with four kills apiece as the Colonels swept the Titans in straight sets by scores of 25-21, 25-22, and 25-13.

For the first time in several weeks Collins football fans weren’t sitting on the edge of their seat, holding their collective breath late last Friday night, of course that was because the Titans were on a bye week.

The comeback kids – who have won their last two games on their last possession – used last week to get back to basics and get ready for perennial power Boyle County tonight.

The Collins boys’ soccer team hasn’t been able to build off the momentum of wins over Spencer and Anderson counties.

The Titans have now dropped two straight, falling 3-0 to North Oldham on Tuesday and 4-0 to St. Xavier earlier in the week.

“The competition is quite different in the four game stretch,” Collins coach Jamil Shalash said. “We’re putting together some real good soccer, but not stringing it for eighty minutes like we need to against competition like that.”

While North Bullitt may have come into Shelbyville undefeated, the Shelby County Rockets football team made sure the Eagles weren’t leaving that way.

SCHS largely shut down the typically explosive North Bullitt offense, as the Rockets dismantled the Eagles 48-23.

“Our number one thing we did was play assignment football,” coach Todd Shipley said. “We knew they were going to run a version of the triple-option, and I think we forced them to do some things they weren’t used to doing.”

“My thoughts on the match is that we took a step back today,” SCHS coach Casey Page said. “But we dealt with harsh conditions. Weissinger had just aerated the greens which makes them extremely tough to putt on, which is one of our strengths.”